Tara Knight is the founding member and senior partner of the firm of Knight, Conway & Cerritelli, L.L.C. located in New Haven, Connecticut. Attorney Knight specializes in criminal defense law. Her extensive criminal litigation background includes trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts.

She is one of the first women to be listed in the publication, The Best Lawyers in America, as an outstanding criminal practitioner in Connecticut.

Attorney Knight was also listed in New York Magazine in its July 2006 and 2007 editions as one of the best lawyers in the New York area.

Additionally, she was named a "Connecticut Super Lawyer" for 2006 and 2007. The Connecticut Super Lawyers were selected by their peers in an extensive nomination and polling process and published in the Connecticut Magazine.

She was selected by the Mayor of New Haven, John DeStefano, Jr. to be a member of an independent review board which was formed to overview the policies, procedures and structures of the New Haven Police Department in the wake of a recent corruption scandal.

She is a past-president of the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and was appointed by the judges of the Superior Court in Connecticut to serve as a member of the grievance panel for the Ansonia-Milford Judicial District.

Attorney Knight is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and New Haven County Bar Association.  In 2001 she was inducted into the Connecticut Bar Foundation. She is an active member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  She has been an executive committee member of the criminal law section of the Connecticut Bar Association since 1995.

She is an adjunct professor of criminal law at Quinnipiac University. She has been a guest lecturer for classes at Yale Law School, Quinnipiac School of Law, and the University of New Haven and has participated as a panelist and / or lecturer at numerous seminars and conferences sponsored by various bar associations, law schools, television and radio programs, colleges and other organizations.

She has been a guest commentator on Court TV since 1997 and has been invited to comment as an expert on criminal law on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. Additionally, she has been featured in two A&E Network productions. She and Attorney Hugh F. Keefe are frequent guests on New Haven’s popular morning radio program, Chaz and AJ in the Morning (99.1 WPLR).

Attorney Knight is a graduate of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut and Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. She also completed the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia

You may contact Attorney Knight either at the phone number below or you may email her at tknight@kcc-law.com.